Even as the role of renewables progressively increases India overall energy mix, the policymakers must not lose sight of the very significant role that coal plays in the country economy, avers Andrew DeLeone, Managing Director, GE Power India. He recommends that the country must leverage its cost competitiveness to set-up low emission thermal power plants overseas by offering attractive financing options.

If there is any company that is the poster boy of the Indian infrastructure sector, it must be Larsen & Toubro. Since the inception, the company has witnessed many challenging business cycles and every time it came out unscratched.

Power utilities in developing economies like India are often confronted with a two-pronged challenge in the energy-revenue chain: a gap between peak demand and installed capacity and high levels of technical and commercial losses.

India for us is a very important market because of being the fastest growing globally. In our global automation portfolio, we have one of our factories in Goa where we not only design and develop products for India, but also for the global market.

Ducab is working to power the region's renewable energy agenda through continued investments in both products and projects. In particular, the company is focusing more on solar, nuclear and wind energy.

Union Minister of Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal has talked about having a global grid. While addressing a conference of World Energy Council India, Goyal asked the participants to think about having global transmission grid in which power can seamlessly flow from one region to the other.